About Me

My life was described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it was not my life, but me, that was the exotic, the uprooted plant, the one who didn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
Now I am back in Australia, the returning native learning to live where I was born. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE

LATEST:
THE FORSAKEN LANDS
The story of a clash of cultures and magic as traders and buccaneers of the Va-cherished Hemisphere hunt for spices and wealth in the Va-forsaken half of the world ... even as the unidentified darkness of plague and murder stalks their own land.
THE LASCAR'S DAGGER available worldwide now!

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Special Moments

This is my week apparently for feedback from authors ... people who don't know me but have come across my work.

And it's a strange feeling. You see, I have spent the better part of life feeling rather ordinary, like most of us do, I guess. And along the way, I have admired certain people who are in the public eye, to one degree or another. Not too many politicians among them, I will admit, but there have been many, many writers.

I've admired their work, their creations, their ideas, their values, their talent. And as far as I have been concerned, they were out there in the stratosphere somewhere, about as far away as you could get from me. I admired from afar and read their books, but funnily enough it never occurred to me that they would read mine.

So when Kate Elliott , author of many wonderful fantasies that I've avidly read and admired for so many different reasons, says on a team blog named Deep Genre :

Glenda, I meant to mention some weeks ago that I am a total fangirl after reading your Aware trilogy... It’s fabulous. I loved it.

...well, I was just bowled over. This was Kate Elliott, talking about MY books. In public. Oh, wow. All I'd done was leave a comment on a blogpost re manuscript submission, and that was the last thing I expected.

Kate Elliott, I think you are wonderful.

I have to go and sit down now.

Pix (taken a while back):

A writer's life. The temptation is that pair of flippers and the coral reef in the bay - and the reality is the deadline.

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Awards

BEST FANTASY NOVEL OF THE YEAR Shortlisted Finalist2003: for The Aware; 2004: for The Tainted; 2006: for Heart of the Mirage; 2007: for The Song of the Shiver Barrens; 2009: for The Last Stormlord 2010: for Stormlord Rising 2011: for Stormlord's Exile